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Theyre less vaccinated, and more vulnerable to severe illness and long covid. so youre really kind of having this really big impact thats just going to exacerbate the health inequalities. the government says surveillance of the virus will continue, and testing could be ramped up again in response to new variants. scotland, wales and northern ireland are still to set out their plans for living with the virus. katherine da costa, bbc news. scotlands first minister, nicola sturgeon, has set out her...

Scotland first minister nicola sturgeon will set out in a statement later her governments plans for managing the pandemic with fewer restrictions in future. our correspondent alexandra mackenzie is in glasgow for us. what are you expecting? well, nicola sturgeon has said she wants to strike the right balance and thats the balance between having a normal life and also controlling the virus. she was due to speak to her cabinet today and she is due to speak to the scottish parliament and shall outl...

And that is why the government will have to step in and support public transport as cities recover. or what? or what will happen? or we will see the loss of services and we are already hearing that operators are getting ready to reduce the frequency of services, cut some altogether. 30 services at risk in greater manchester. today�*s measures were described as a significant step towards normality by the business group cbi. but few think it will be business as usual anytime soon, if ever. simon...

Occupy whats already been taken or are they going to advance further and try to take the entire regions which would be crossing the conflict line and ukraine has said all along it will defend itself should that happen. that would be an enormous escalation and something that people are very much worried about. james waterhouse reporting from kyiv. all covid restrictions will end in england on thursday — including mandatory self—isolation for positive cases. free mass testing will stop from th...

For positive cases. free mass testing will stop from the first of april for most people. its part of the governments "living with covid" plan. our health correspondent, katherine da costa, reports. in response to the covid crisis, the uk rapidly built up one of the biggest testing capabilities in the world. it came with a hefty price tag. infections are still high but the government said its time to wind down free mass testing. so, what exactly is changing and when? from thursday, you will no lo...

Your questions answered. welcome to your questions answered. youve been sending in your questions on the end of covid restrictions and of free mass testing in england. with me to answer your questions is dr raghib ali, an epidemiologist from cambridge university, who was also a frontline nhs consultant during the height of the pandemic. thank you for your time this morning. we will get straight to those questions. stephen asks can someone explain why the frequency of ordering lateral flow test h...

Infection. according to the sources they say the hong kong police would help prepare for mass testing here in the city. officials here said they are weighing mandatory testing of everyone who lives in the territory. 7.4 million people. this news comes just days after chinese president xi jinping urged hong kong and the government to take the main responsibility to control and stabilize the growing covid-19 out break. on sunday, the territory reported over 6,000 new daily cases of covid-19. as we...

Scrapped the vaccine passports and they are getting rid of mass testing. rec was two weeks ago, government policy today. so can i ask the first minister. her statement said the government is moving to a system of representative sampling away from mass testing. so why has the first minister created a fight with the uk government over this issue just weeks before fight with the uk government over this issuejust weeks before her own plans to scale back testing anyway? secondly, the first minister o...

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